I do not employ researchers, nor did I conduct any primary research using the Internet. I need physical contact with my sources, and there's only one way to get it. To me every trip to a library or ar...
Holmes was testing his power to bend the lives of people.
Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.
German people, he said, would follow Hitler with absolute loyalty provided they are allowed to have a share in the making and carrying out of decisions, provided every word of criticism is not immedia...
German forces in Belgium entered quiet towns and villages, took civilian hostages, and executed them to discourage resistance. In the town of Dinant, German soldiers shot 612 men, women, and children....
Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that would effectively deprive Jews of their citizenship and all civil rights. German...
Churchill acknowledged Fisher’s energy and prior genius. But he was seventy-four years old, Churchill wrote, in an oblique evisceration. As in a great castle which has long contended with time, the mi...
Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship
Burnham’s frequent admonition: Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. Burnham
At night thunderstorms arose often, shedding lightning that gave the terrain the pallor of a corpse. Fog would settle in for days, causing the edge of the cliff to look like the edge of the material w...
As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
All the ship had to do was make another turn, away from U-20, and the chase would be over.
After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blig...
There existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete—that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one anoth...
That I ventured as far as my position would allow and by historical analogy warned men as solemnly as possible against half-educated leaders being permitted to lead nations into war.
My between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What
Look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.
Following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What
Ameliorate Jewish
With the onset of winter Burnham ordered all hydrants packed in horse manure to prevent freezing. On the coldest days the manure steamed, as if the hydrants themselves were on fire.